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9781465443830 | Dk Pub, March 1, 2016, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry JamesThe Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style...read more

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9780720614817 | Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry JamesThe Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style.

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9780571282531 | Gardners Books, September 15, 2011, cover price $22.00

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9781906413552 | Arcadia Books Ltd, March 4, 2010, cover price $18.30

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Product Description: What happens when a person returns, unrecognized, to place and situation they left long ago? Will some see a ghost, or perhaps a threat? Can the past be altered, or the future changed? When Prince Harry arrives at Balmoral to convalesce after a bungee jumping accident in Bali, he is accompanied by Sister Julia, a plain-looking nurse who dotes on her charge...read more

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9781906413002 | Bliss Books, April 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What happens when a person returns, unrecognized, to place and situation they left long ago?

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Product Description: 15-year-old Alice is sent to Corfu for the summer holidays to stay with Cara, a family friend. She finds herself isolated and vulnerable and soon suspects that all is not as it appears. Is she being held a prisoner, and will she discover what really happened to her parents? Emma Tennant perfectly captures the voice of a teenager today in a thrilling mystery which will appeal to adults and young peopl...read more

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9781904559313 | Maia Pr Ltd, October 15, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 15-year-old Alice is sent to Corfu for the summer holidays to stay with Cara, a family friend.

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Product Description: The Queen goes AWOL. No one can find her: where is she going and why?

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9781905147885 | Bliss Books, August 30, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The Queen left to the Caribbean island of St Lucia, where she has bought a house off-plan.

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9781906413019 | Bliss Books, April 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Queen goes AWOL.

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A sequel to Pride and Prejudice takes up the story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy a year after their wedding as Christmas approaches and gossip, prejudice, and troublesome relatives again cause them discomfort. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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9780312107932, titled "Pemberley: Or, Pride and Prejudice Continued" | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice' takes up the story of Elizabeth and Mr.

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9780312361792 | Griffin, August 8, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A sequel to Pride and Prejudice takes up the story of Elizabeth and Mr.

Elizabeth wins Darcy, and Jane wins Bingham - but do they 'live happily ever after'? This novel provides insights into the emotions and mores of eighteenth-century English high society.

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9781904559177 | Maia Pr Ltd, December 31, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth wins Darcy, and Jane wins Bingham - but do they 'live happily ever after'?

Set in the years around the French Revolution, this novel explores the life of Pamela Sims, a woman who would become known in history as La Belle Pamela. This novel tells how her past shaped their lives, capturing the atmosphere of eighteenth-century France and the complexity of a world where your origins create your identity.

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9781904559160 | Maia Pr Ltd, December 15, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Set in the years around the French Revolution, this novel explores the life of Pamela Sims, a woman who would become known in history as La Belle Pamela.

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9781872621920 | Gardners Books, March 22, 2005, cover price $15.90

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A memoir in the rhythm of the five seasons of Corfu, this book tells the stories of the house of Rovinia, built in the '60s by Emma Tennant's parents and of Maria, the 'spirit of the house' and her knowledge and wisdom. It entwines recipes and original photos with fond recollections in prose.

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9781840243819 | New edition (Summersdale Pub Ltd, June 30, 2004), cover price $14.20 | About this edition: A memoir in the rhythm of the five seasons of Corfu, this book tells the stories of the house of Rovinia, built in the '60s by Emma Tennant's parents and of Maria, the 'spirit of the house' and her knowledge and wisdom.

A companion novel to Jane Eyre follows the marriage between the shy governess and Edward Rochester as witnessed by the latter's young French ward, who remembers her childhood in Paris as the daughter of a celebrated actress and who discovers a painful secret at Thornfield Hall. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780786253265 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A companion novel to 'Jane Eyre' follows the marriage between the shy governess and Edward Rochester as witnessed by the latter's young French ward, who remembers her childhood in Paris as the daughter of a celebrated actress.
9780060004545 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A companion novel to 'Jane Eyre' follows the marriage between the shy governess and Edward Rochester as witnessed by the latter's young French ward, who remembers her childhood in Paris as the daughter of a celebrated actress.

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9780060004552 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A companion novel to 'Jane Eyre' follows the marriage between the shy governess and Edward Rochester as witnessed by the latter's young French ward, who remembers her childhood in Paris as the daughter of a celebrated actress.

This novel by Emma Tennant is about the misdemeanours inherent in writing - theft, false memory, plagiarism and greed for celebrity - and it demonstrates, too, the embarrassment and shame suffered by those who steal from, and exploit others, in their quest.

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9780099283973 | Vintage Uk, November 6, 2003, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: This novel by Emma Tennant is about the misdemeanours inherent in writing - theft, false memory, plagiarism and greed for celebrity - and it demonstrates, too, the embarrassment and shame suffered by those who steal from, and exploit others, in their quest.

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Product Description: A delightful and elegant literary memoir about the Scottish novelist's eccentric family. Selected as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and shortlisted for the prestigious Scottish Saltire Literary Award, Strangers is a literary memoir by Emma Tennant, the Scottish novelist whose eccentric family is described here in a pristine and elegant style...read more

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9780811214094 | New Directions, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The novelist provides a memoir of her eccentric family, from her grandmother's feud with her great-aunt--the wife of Britain's prime minister--to her own lonely childhood on the family estate

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9780811215305 | New Directions, June 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A delightful and elegant literary memoir about the Scottish novelist's eccentric family.

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The author of Sylvia and Ted describes how her English family built a home called Rovinia in Corfu by the Aegean Sea, detailing the legends of the island, the family cook and her husband, the local inhabitants, and the rich beauty and culture of a special Greek island. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780805068979 | Henry Holt & Co, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author describes how her English family built a home called Robinia in Corfu by the Aegean Sea, detailing the legends of the island, the family cook and her husband, and the local inhabitants.

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9780805072822 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, February 1, 2003), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The author of Sylvia and Ted describes how her English family built a home called Rovinia in Corfu by the Aegean Sea, detailing the legends of the island, the family cook and her husband, the local inhabitants, and the rich beauty and culture of a special Greek island.

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Product Description: This book is the story of Emma Tennant's parent's house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of people like Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodoros, and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay...read more

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9780786240098 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This book is the story of Emma Tennant's parent's house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous.

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The acclaimed writer's third volume of memoirs offers revealing portraits of Ted Hughes, Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alberto Moravia, and many others.

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9780862419868 | Canongate Books Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed writer's third volume of memoirs offers revealing portraits of Ted Hughes, Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alberto Moravia, and many others.

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Product Description: This is a fictional re-creation of the marriage and separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. From the start, poetry was the couple's trysting-place and battleground. Sylvia read Ted's verse before she met him, confronting the handsome young poet with his own words at their first encounter one cold Cambridge night...read more

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9781840184815 | Mainstream Pub Co Ltd, June 18, 2001, cover price $20.10 | About this edition: This is a fictional re-creation of the marriage and separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

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The turbulent relationship, courtship, and marriage of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is fictionalized in this stirring novel of artistic struggle, passion, and betrayal. By the author of Pemberley and Burnt Diaries. 25,000 first printing.

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9780805066753 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Recounts the turbulent relationship, courtship, and marriage of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, in a novel of artistic struggles, passion, and betrayal.

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Product Description: 'So beautiful, so atmospheric, so eerie, so remote and revealing and, finally, so loving' - ELAINE DUNDY 'A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family' - ANTONIA FRASER Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, this is the story of the author's family, the Tennants...read more

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9780708990902 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, October 1, 1999), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: 'So beautiful, so atmospheric, so eerie, so remote and revealing and, finally, so loving' - ELAINE DUNDY 'A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family' - ANTONIA FRASER Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, this is the story of the author's family, the Tennants.

In this sequel to Jane Austin's Pride And Prejudice, Pemberley is Mr Darcy's splendid Derbyshire home, and it is here that he and his wife, Elizabeth, entertain their relatives for Christmas. The Bennets, the Bingleys and Lady Catherine de Bourgh are just some of the characters who come to bring happiness - or the reverse - to the new Chatelaine of Pemberley. Elizabeth and Darcy have been married a year and Elizabeth shows no sign of producing an heir. Darcy's pride and Eliza's prejudice are once more provoked, this time by the jealous tales of Caroline Bingley.

Hardcover:

9780708988268 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In this sequel to Jane Austin's Pride And Prejudice, Pemberley is Mr Darcy's splendid Derbyshire home, and it is here that he and his wife, Elizabeth, entertain their relatives for Christmas.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781859980354 | Gift edition (Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, June 1, 1999), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Three novels which tell the story of the Bennett family and their five daughters.
9781859980026 | Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: This is Emma Tennant's inventive continuation of Pride and Prejudice. As in her earlier novel Pemberley, Emma has written an original work of stylish irony, wit and insight into early 19th century life and manners.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781859980163, titled "Unequal Marriage" | Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is Emma Tennant's inventive continuation of Pride and Prejudice.
9780745127484 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, March 1, 1996), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In the author's second sequel, successor to the well-received Pemberley, young Master Edward Darcy makes trouble for the Darcy fortune and marriage by his determination to fight for Napoleon and his huge gambling debts.

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